1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 178 Sailor Supplement
The battle with the Spanish army ended before noon, but it took four or five days to capture the fleeing prisoners.Except for sporadic personnel who fled into the forest, most of the Spanish soldiers were captured.

After the post-war inspection, more than 360 Spanish soldiers were killed and wounded in this battle, and more than 700 were captured.After preliminary interrogation, the Spaniards really only came with more than 250 soldiers, including more than 500 Spanish Musketeers and nearly [-] native servants.As for the remaining [-] or so natives, they are really the "builders" summoned by Spain to prepare to take over Hanzhou.

In the battle of Hanzhou, three Marines were killed and eight were injured.In the township barracks, 15 people were killed and 29 were injured.There were a total of 55 casualties, and the loss was considered slight.

"In the next few days, Jianye City will leave a township barracks to cooperate with the Marine Corps to continue searching for remnants of the enemy. The other two township barracks will escort the prisoners back to Heishan City." Yu Fukun gave orders to several marines and the chief officers of the township barracks.

"Heishan City and Xinhuai Security Department have lifted the wartime state, and all production and life have returned to normal. Normal production in Jianye City has resumed, and all work outside the city is still suspended. When it will resume depends on the situation of the remnants of the enemy." Inside the civil government, Qi Tian issued instructions to all civil affairs officials.

Immigrants who were urgently transported back in the past few months need to be redistributed and resettled, the weeds in the farmland also need to be cleared, the production of civilian supplies in the workshop should resume, and the tense hearts of the Hanzhou people should be relaxed.

Hanzhou Heishan City, mine.

"Are you the old clapper who attacked our Hanzhou last year?" Shi Dongliang leaned back on the chair, squinting at the humble former pirate leader in front of him.

"If you go back to the uncle, I am Zhang Baosheng. In front of you, how dare a young man call you an old clapper!" Zhang Baosheng, the former pirate leader, bowed humbly.More than a year of mining life has completely wiped out all his ambitions. It is far better to eat a good meal or rest in a dark room for a day to get rich or dominate the sea.

"Do you know what I asked you to do?" Shi Dongliang was very satisfied with Zhang Baosheng's attitude.No matter how brutal you fucking pirate is, in our Hanzhou mine, you will still be turned into a numb mining tool.

"My lord, tell me!" Zhang Baosheng didn't dare to ask more questions, and said with his waist bowed.

"A few days ago, we in Hanzhou fought a battle with the Spaniards in Luzon. We brought some captives to the mine, and there were a lot of them. There are not enough supervisors in our mine." Shi Dongliang said: "Recently These days, you are pretty well-behaved and know how to mine. So, you go to the mine and find a dozen people for me. Teach those Spaniards and natives how to mine correctly.  … Yes, by the way, tell them about the rules here."

"...Master, we don't understand that barbarian's language." Zhang Baosheng was overjoyed when he heard that the captain of the guard of the mine proposed that he choose some people to be supervisors.God is sorry, I finally got through it.Although he was still in the mine, at least he didn't need to mine by himself, and his life was saved.

"I don't understand the barbarian's language either!" Shi Dongliang smiled, "But with the whip, those Spaniards and natives will definitely understand your words! Don't you think so?"

"Master, don't worry! I will definitely discipline those Spaniards and natives well!" Zhang Baosheng immediately understood Shi Dongliang's meaning. Mining does not need to be taught by hand, you only need to wave a whip. Those new coolies will definitely Quickly learn how to mine and how to obey the rules.

"Don't kill too many people!" Shi Dongliang said seriously: "We took the Spanish captives with great difficulty. When they come to our Hanzhou again, we don't know when."

"Yes yes yes..., Hanzhou is mighty, no matter how many Spaniards come, they should come here." Zhang Baosheng said complimentingly.If he was still very unconvinced when he was caught by Hanzhou last year, he felt that their failure was entirely due to the inability of the pirates to cooperate with each other, and a surprise attack by Hanzhou, which led to their pirates falling like this end.

But with the passage of time, Zhang Baosheng gradually understood what kind of existence Hanzhou was after simply talking with many guards guarding them.This is completely a small country that is accumulating strength and striving to become stronger.Not only build cities and farms, but also build weapons and produce a lot of livelihood materials. What is exaggerated is that they also engage in the model of all the people as soldiers.Those guards will change every once in a while, and they will practice once a month. They can handle muskets, swords, and even cannons.

No, the Spanish who came to fight Hanzhou must have been completely annihilated, and they all came to mine.Myself, I have nothing to think about. It is true that I will follow Uncle Han Zhou to discipline these new coolies.

"The Spanish fleet has been confirmed to leave." Cao Xiong said to Qi Dajiang in the military government building, "The three spaceships have explored in several directions, and the longest distance is several hundred miles, but there is no trace of the Spanish fleet. Hurry up and organize people to tow the two Spanish warships in the harbor back to the shipyard and repair them, maybe we can still use them."

"Uncle, I'm going to mess with this right now." Qi Dajiang nodded and promised: "We have too many ships now, and we don't have enough sailors."

"Indeed." Cao Xiong also smiled wryly. He used to have no boats, but now he has boats, but he doesn't have enough sailors.Currently, Hanzhou has five Western-style large ships, seven Ming-style ships, two Persian-style ships, and three clipper ships, making a total of seventeen ships.If it transports people, it can transport about 5000 people at one time.

Cao Xiong regretted that he shouldn't have dismissed those hired Western sailors and officers in October last year.If the two captured Spanish galleons could really be repaired, they simply didn't have enough skilled sailors to handle them.

"If it doesn't work, first transfer the sailors from the fishing boats in Jianye City to the transport ship, and then transfer the sailors from those transport ships to the ship running to Daming. In addition, let Xiaotian hurry up and train Some sailors have come out. In a few days, we will go to Batavia to see if we can hire some more Western sailors." Cao Xiong said.

Qi Dajiang nodded, that's all he could do.But training sailors cannot be completed in a month or two. There may be a shortage of sailors in Hanzhou within a year.

"Why don't you think about recruiting some pirates?" In the evening, when Qi Tian heard Qi Dajiang talk about the shortage of sailors, he immediately remembered what England did during this period.When they competed with Spain and the Netherlands for maritime hegemony, they recruited a large number of pirates and gave them the status of the English navy.It was by virtue of numerous pirate ships and personnel that England overthrew Spain and the Netherlands successively, and then finally established its maritime supremacy.

In fact, in this era, the life of pirates is not all like that in "Pirates of the Caribbean", roaming freely in the sea, plundering passing merchant ships wantonly.A real pirate ship may not meet a suitable robbing target in half a year or a year at sea.If you are unlucky, you will even be killed by those merchant ships with a slightly larger tonnage.Even if some pirate ships can harvest something at sea, they will often be eaten up by those treacherous loot brokers, and the money that falls into their own hands is very little.

And those pirates who got the money, because of the huge survival pressure and mental pressure, would spend the money on alcohol and women.In the end, there are not many money left on the body.They dare not start a family, dare not go ashore easily, let alone get injured, and live in a muddle every day until they die in a certain sea battle.

Therefore, if those pirates have a good future and a good destination, they will happily go there.This is true for Western pirates, so it is also true for Eastern pirates.

"Besides, there are still a hundred or so in the mine, and they are all weighed out and used. I am not afraid that they will dare not care!" After more than a year of training in the mine, presumably, those original pirates should know how to cherish the good things. live.

Zhang Baosheng, as the new head supervisor of the mine, hadn't maintained his happy mood for a few days before it was ruthlessly broken.The Navy Office of the Hanzhou Military Government came to the Heishan City Mine with seven or eight officers in navy blue military uniforms (the military government adopted the Marine Corps uniform as all naval uniforms).

They loudly announced that all the former pirate sailors would be given an amnesty, and they would be recruited to serve crimes and meritorious deeds on naval warships. After the one-year internship period expires, if they pass the performance, they will officially become a member of the Hanzhou Navy.

There used to be more than 160 original pirates, but they only worked in the mine for more than a year, and now there are less than 120 left.These numb-looking coolies in the mine didn't react for a long time after hearing the news.Amnesty?Serving crimes and making meritorious deeds?Hanzhou Navy?What does it mean?

Shi Dongliang gave a wry smile, damn it, after mining for a long time, he couldn't understand the words anymore.He glanced at one of the guards.The guard immediately stood up, took out a long whip, and swung it vigorously into the air.

All the coolies immediately shuddered, and in an instant, all eyes were on the guard.

"From today onwards, you can leave the mine." The guard said loudly: "From now on, as trainee sailors of the Hanzhou Navy, you will belong to us. However, if you disobey the commander's order on the ship Yes, you are always welcome back here. Do you understand?"

"Understood!" Coolie replied loudly.

"Understood, I quickly took off my clothes, went to wash Lao Tzu, and then left with the navy."

More than 100 former pirates immediately dispersed and ran towards the open-air bathing place of the mine.

Seeing this scene, Luo Rucheng was dumbfounded for a long time before turning back to look at Shi Dongliang.

"It can't be helped, as a coolie, apart from digging mines all day long, I just think about when to eat." Shi Dongliang smiled, "Maybe it will be all right after a while."

"God's stone, your mine just turned a good person into a fool!"

(End of this chapter)